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Europe has scant alternatives to Russian energy.







Foreign capital is not important to countries such as Russia and China. Both countries are perfectly capable of financing their own development. Indeed, China is the world’s largest creditor nation. Foreign loans are only important to countries that lack the internal resources for development and have to purchase the business know-how, techlology, and resources abroad with foreign currencies that their exports are insufficient to bring in.






To repeat outselves, the greatest threat that Russia faces is not sanctions but the incompetence of its neoliberal economists who have been throughly brainwashed to serve US interests.

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  1. Parbes says:

    Another one of Paul Craig Roberts’ great articles… Sadly, judging from the grave errors that they have been making, it doesn’t seem likely that the weak, pusillanimous, inferiority complex-laden Putin government will be able to appreciate or follow the commonsense logic presented in this article.

    • Replies: @Ace

    Yes, correct. But this is an IMF rule, and Russia is an IMF member. To control its monetary policy it would have to get out.


    Oh dear, neolibs at their “finest”!

    This “theory” is simply not true. If anything, Russians don’t want the sanctions to be lifted, because this will also force us to scrap our counter-sanctions against the EU. The agro-business in Russia had been expanding by leaps and bounds for the last two years. This persistent myth that “the Russians” (who exactly, I wonder – 2-3% of the pro-Western urbanites in Moscow and St. Pete?) are desperate to have the sanctons lifted is a self-deception of the West, who IS desparate of the fact that the sanctions didn’t work.

    Russia’s most dangerous threat is the country’s neoliberal economists.

    Yes! Ulyukayev is, probably, feeling lonely in his prison. I say – why not send Chubais, Siluanov and Nabiulina to cheer him up? 😉

    • Replies: @Andrei Martyanov

    Kissinger, like Dick Cheney or George Soros, will probably never be completely dead.

    • Agree: Andrei Martyanov
  5. Andrei Martyanov [AKA "SmoothieX12"] says: • Website

    LOL! True. You forgot McCain, though.

    • Replies: @jacques sheete
  6. Andrei Martyanov [AKA "SmoothieX12"] says: • Website


    Most of Russia’s economic block has to be literally purged from their sinecures, some, indeed, have to be “re-educated” near Magadan or Tyumen, or Saransk. Too bad, two of these places are actually not too bad. Others deserved to be executed. Too bad this jackass Gaidar (actually no blood relation to Arkady whatsoever) died before he could be tried for crimes against humanity and genocide. Albeit, some say he died because of his consciousness couldn’t take the burden. Looking at his swine face I, somehow, doubt it.

  7. A silver-lining to this.

    If the US continues to antagonize Russia, Russia will have to grow even more independent, nationalist, and sovereign.

    At any rate, this issue cannot be addressed until we face that the fact that globalism is essentially Jewish Supremacism that fears gentile nationalism as a barrier to its penetration and domination.

    This is not a US vs Russia issue. The real conflict is Jewish Globalism vs Russian nationalism and American nationalism. But since Jews control the media, they’ve spread the impression that it’s about US vs Russia.

    Same thing with this crap about ‘white privilege’. It is a misleading concept to fool Americans into thinking that the main conflict is between ‘privileged whites’ and ‘people of color’. It is really to hide the fact that Jewish power and privilege really rules the US. It is a means to hoodwink people from noticing that the real divide is between Jews and Gentiles, not between ‘privileged whites’ and ‘non-white victims’. After all, too many whites lack privilege, and too many non-whites do very well in America.

    • Replies: @annamaria
  8. @Andrei Martyanov


    Norilsk is also said to be most hospitable this time of the year [nod, nod]

    • Agree: Andrei Martyanov
  9. @Andrei Martyanov

    I’m generally a big fan and admirer of Putin, but this is definitely one criticism of him that I have a lot of sympathy for. It is long past time for Putin to purge the neoliberals from the Kremlin and nationalize the Russian Central Bank. I cannot fathom why he hasn’t done this already.

  10. Does PCR really think that Putin is stupid enough to fall for Kissinger’s hair-brained scheme? I mean, give Putin a little bit of credit. He has so far completely outmaneuvered Washington on virtually ever subject. I’m sure he’s clever enough to see through such a crude divide-and-rule strategy.

  11. anonymous • Disclaimer says:

    The Russians can’t be flummoxed, they aren’t children. Russia and China border each other so they have a natural mutual interest in having their east-west areas be stable and safe, particularly when the US threatens both of them. This geography isn’t going to change. Abandoning clients such as Syria and Iran would irreversibly damage the Russian brand as being unreliable therefore they’d find it impossible to attract any others in the future. They know this so it’s unlikely they would be so rash as to snap at any bait dangled in front of them. And, as pointed out, the bait really isn’t all that irresistible. It’s always best to negotiate from a position of strength and they realize that. American policy deep thinkers are often fantasists who bank upon their chess opponents making hoped-for predictable moves. That doesn’t happen in real life.

    • Agree: Seamus Padraig
  12. Andrei Martyanov [AKA "SmoothieX12"] says: • Website
    @Seamus Padraig

    I cannot fathom why he hasn’t done this already.

    Partially, because Putin himself is an economic liberal and, to a degree, monetarist, albeit less rigid than his economic block. The good choices he made often were opposite to his views. As he himself admitted that Russia’s geopolitical vector changed with NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia–a strengthening of Russia has become an imperative. This comeback was impossible within the largely “Western” monetarist economic model. Russia’s comeback happened not thanks but despite Putin’s economic views, Putin adjusted his views in the process, his economic block didn’t. But many of them still remain his friends, despite the fact that many of them are de facto fifth column and work against Russia, intentionally and other wise. Eventually Putin will be forced to get down from his fence and take the position of industrialists and siloviki. Putin’s present for Medvedev’s birthday was a good hint on where he is standing economically today and I am beginning to like that but still–I personally am not convinced yet. We’ll see. In many respects Putin was lucky and specifically because of the namely Soviet military and industry captains still being around–people who, unlike Putin, knew exactly what constituted Russia’s strength. Enough to mention late Evgeny Primakov. Let’s not forget that despite Putin’s meteoric rise through the top levels of Russia’s state bureaucracy, including his tenure as a Director of FSB, Putin’s background is not really military-industrial. He is a lawyer, even if uniformed (KGB) part of his career. I know for a fact that initially (early 2000s) he was overwhelmed with the complexity of Russia’s military and industry. Enough to mention his creature Serdyukov who almost destroyed Command and Control structure of Russia’s Armed Forces and main ideologue behind Russia’s military “reform”, late Vitaly Shlykov who might have been a great GRU spy (and economist by trade) but who never served a day in combat units. Thankfully, the “reforms” have been stopped and Russian Armed Forces are still dealing with the consequences. This whole clusterfvck was of Putin’s own creation–hardly a good record on his resume. Hopefully, he learned.

    • Replies: @Sergey Krieger
  13. Vladimir Brovkin [AKA "Vlad"] says:
    @Seamus Padraig

    He has not done it already because he just cannot let go of his dream to have it as he did in 2003, when Russia Germany and France together blocked legality of US war in Iraq. Putin still hopes for a good working relationship with major West European powers. Italy France and even Germany. He still hopes to draw them away from the US. However the obvious gains from Import substitution campaign make it apparent that Russia does benefit from sanctions, that Russia can get anything it wants in technology from the East rather than the West. So the break with Western orientation is in the making. Hopefully.

  14. Ace says:

    That is a very strange characterization of Mr. Putin’s government.

    The US and our toad “coalition” partners don’t dare establish a “no fly” zone in Syria because of the “pusillanimous” Putin.

    • Replies: @Parbes
  15. m___ says:

    How come, will have to retract on “anything in the public communication domain is a lie”, concise, true expose.

  16. @Seamus Padraig

    You’re right. Putin has outwitted and outmaneuvered the Americans at every turn. Yet Dr Roberts articles over the years tend to treat him as some simple-minded Russian yokel, surrounded by predatory Atlanticists, who is teetering on the brink of making some disastrous policy error. The remedy is, of course, to follow Dr Roberts’ advice.
    Now we know Vladimir Vladimirovich gave you honorary Russian citizenship, Dr Roberts, but that doesn’t mean he needs your advice or is following it. Please give us a more nuanced view of President Putin, if you can.

  17. Parbes says:

    The war in Syria could’ve been over (or almost over) long ago, if it wasn’t for Putin’s pusillanimity in forcing a halt to offensive military operations and calling idiotic ceasefires (in effect, breathers for the enemy which soon turned into “we-cease-they-fire”s) whenever the Syrian-Russian forces came close to smashing and wiping out the jihadis.

  18. annamaria says:

    You forgot to mention the “moderate” jihadis, including the operatives from NATO, Israel, and US. (It seems that the Ukrainian “patriots” that have been bombing the civilians in East Ukraine, also include special “patriots” from the same unholy trinity: There has been also a certain asymmetry in means: look at the map for the number and location of the US/NATO military bases. At least we can see that RF has been trying to avoid the hot phase of WWIII.

  19. annamaria says:
    @Priss Factor

    On the power and privilege that really rule the US:

    • Replies: @Cicatrizatic
  20. Che Guava says:
    @Andrei Martyanov


    On thd facetious note (and I was following Russian politics closely enough at the time to recall his name from then)

    … but I cannot help amusement at how close the name is to the neologism, ‘gaydar’. I know it is not the same sound, but he deserves all the ridicule in the world.

    Gaidar’s gaydar!

  21. Anon • Disclaimer says:

    “I cannot fathom why he hasn’t done this (nationalize the “central bank) already”.

    I read about a rumor a few years ago that Putin has been warned that nationalizing the now private Russian central bank will bring absolutely dire consequences to both him and Russia. It is simply a step he cannot take.

    How dire are the potential consequences? Consider that the refusal of the American government to reauthorize the private central bank in the US brought about the War of 1812. The Americans learned their lesson and quickly reauthorized the private bank after the war had ended.

    Numerous attempts were made to assassinate President Andrew Jacksons specifically because of his refusal to reauthorize the private central bank.

    JFK anyone?

    • Replies: @Seamus Padraig
  22. Agent76 says:




  23. @Anon


    That’s a new one on me. Did the Brits control our first central bank (1791-1811) or something?

  24. Trump has not been neutered. Buchanan has the right on this and Flynn’s actions.

    Sorry, but Crimea is Ukraine. Russia is in serious economic decline and is rapidly burning through its reserves. Putin is almost down to the welfare fund from which pensions are paid, and only about a third of pensions are being paid now.

    If Sanctions are of benefit to Russia, then the sanctions against Imperial Japan were just ducky and no war was fought.

    Roberts is the next best thing to insane.

  25. Agent76 says:

    Here it is in audio form so you can just relax and just listen at your leisure.

    *ALL WARS ARE BANKERS’ WARS* By Michael Rivero


  26. Here is proof that there is no real Leftist power anymore.




    If the Left really rules, why would this be?





    We need to discuss the power of the Glob.

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    , @Anon
  27. @annamaria

    Anthony Migchels ( ), a Dutch currency reformer, is one of the very few analysts out there that understands (1) how our monetary and banking system works, and (2) that it is Jewish owned and created.

  28. annamaria says:

    This is rich from a Ukrainian nationalist ruled by Groysman/Kagans.
    First, figure out who is your saint, a collaborationist Bandera (Babiy Yar and such) or a triple-sitizenship Kolomojski (auto-da-fe of civilians in Odessa). If you still want to bring Holodomor to a discussion, then you need to be reminded that 80% of Ukrainian Cheka at that time were Jewish. If you still think that Russians are the root of all evil, then try to ask the US for more money for pensions, education, and healthcare – instead of weaponry. Here are the glorious results of the US-approved governance from Kiev: “Liberia, Chad, Afghanistan, Sudan and Angola are ahead of Ukraine. All these countries are in the group of repressed economies (49.9-40 scores). Ukraine’s economy has contracted deeply and remains very fragile.”

    Here are your relationships with your neighbors on the other side – Poland and Romania:
    “The right-winged conservative orientation of Warsaw makes it remember old Polish-Ukrainian arguments and scores, and claim its rights on the historically Polish lands of Western Ukraine”
    And please read some history books about Crimea. Or at least Wikipedia:
    “In 1783, Crimea was annexed by the Russian Empire. In 1954, the Crimean Oblast was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic by Nikita Khrushchev (a Soviet dictator). In 2014, a 96.77 percent of Crimeans voted for integration of the region into the Russian Federation with an 83.1 percent voter turnout.” You see, the Crimeans do not like Nuland-Kagan and Pravyj Sector. Do you know why?

  29. @Seamus Padraig

    well it depends. if putin is just out for himself, I can see him getting in bed with kissinger and co. if he is about russia, he would not. that is how I see it. it isn’t about if putin is smart or stupid. just a choice and where his royalty lies.

  30. @Quartermaster

    Sorry, but Crimea is Ukraine.

    How so? #Krymnash


    If by “decline” you mean “expects this year a modest growth as opposed to previous years” then you might be right.

    I’ve been reading about Russia’s imminent collapse and the annihilation of the economy since… forever. Some no-names like you (or some Big Names with agenda) had been predicting it every year. Still didn’t happen.


    Can I see a source for that?


    False equivalence.

    P.S. Hey, Quart – how is Bezviz? Also – are you not cold here? Or are you one of the most racally pure Ukrs, currently residing in Ontario province (Canada), from whence you teach your less lucky raguls in Nizalezhnaya how to be more racially pure? Well, SUGS to be you!

  31. bluedog says:

    Do you have any links to verify this that Russia is down to bedrock,from everything I read and have read Russia’s do pretty damn good, or is this just some more of your endless antiRussian propaganda,,

  32. The US needed huge amounts of British and French capital to develop. Russia has the same requirement otherwise it will be another Argentina.

  33. annamaria says:

    A scandal of a EU member Poland:

    With the Poland’s entry into EU, “Poland did not “regain” sovereignty, much less justice, but forfeited such to the Atlanticist project… Poland has been de-industrialized, and thus deprived of the capacity to pursue independent and effective social and economic policies… Now, with the deployment of thousands of US-NATO troops, tanks, and missile systems on its soil and the Polish government’s relinquishment of jurisdiction over foreign armed forces on its territory, Poland is de facto under occupation. This occupation is not a mere taxation on Poland’s national budget – it is an undeniable liquidation of sovereignty and inevitably turns the country into a direct target and battlefield in the US’ provocative war on Russia.”


    More from a comment section: “Donald Tusk, who is now President of the European Council, whose grandfather, Josef Tusk, served in Hitler’s Wehrmacht, has consistently demanded that the Kiev regime imposed by the US and EU deal with the Donbass people brutally, “as with terrorists”. While the Polish special services were training the future participants of the Maidan operations and the ethnic cleansing of the Donbass, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs made this official statement (02-02-2014): “We support the hard line taken by the Right Sector… The radical actions of the Right Sector and other militant groups of demonstrators and the use of force by protesters are justified… The Right Sector has taken full responsibility for all the acts of violence during the recent protests. This is an honest position, and we respect it. The politicians have failed at their peacekeeping function. This means that the only acceptable option is the radical actions of the Right Sector. There is no other alternative”.

    In short, the US has been the most active enabler of the neo-Nazi movement in Europe. Mrs. Clinton seemingly did not get a memo about who is “new Hitler.”

  34. Scranton calling Mssrs. Roberts and Hudson:

    Do you happen to know anything about western financial giants’ influence upon Russia’s “Atlanticist Integrationists”?

    It’s low hanging fruit for me to take a pick, but I am thinking The Goldman Sachs Group is well ensconced among Russian “Atlanticist Integrationists.”

    You guys are top seeded pros at uncovering Deep State-banker secrets. In contrast, I drive school bus and I struggle to even balance the family Wells Fargo debit card!

    However, since our US Congress has anointed a seasoned G.S.G. veteran, Steve Mnuchin, as the administration’s Treasury Secretary, he has become my favorite “Person of Interest” who I suspect spouts a Ural Mountain-level say as to how “Atlanticist Integrationists” operate.

    Speaking very respectfully, I hope my question does not get “flummoxed” into resource rich Siberia.

    Thank you very much!

  35. Bobzilla says:



    Most likely the Spirit of Anti-Christ keeping them alive to do his bidding.

  36. @Priss Factor

    Thanks for the digest of hasbarist crap.

    Useful to have it all in one place..

  37. annamaria says:

    War profiteers (both of a dishonest character) have found each other:
    “… Trump’s administration was in “disarray,” McCain told the Munich Security Conference, where earlier in the day Germany defense minister Ursula von der Leyen warned Trump to stop threatening the EU, abandoning Western values and seeking close ties with Russia, that the resignation of the new president’s security adviser Michael Flynn over his contacts with Russia reflected deep problems in Washington.”

    What an amazing whoring performance for the war-manufacturers! And here is an interesting morsel of information about the belligerent Frau der Leyen:
    “Stanford university has said Ursula von der Leyen is misrepresenting her affiliation with the school. The German defense minister’s academic career is already under scrutiny after accusations of plagiarism.” No kidding. Some “Ursula von der Leyen’ values” indeed.

  38. I doubt we’ll see little change from the Trump administration toward Russia.

    From SOTT:




    Apparently, we feel satisfied fighting with our old allies, al-Qaeda and Saudis.

    I had hoped for much better from Trump.

  39. Kiza says:

    I think that the authors may be underestimating Putin in his determination to keep Russia and the Russian economy independent. For example, I find this rumoured offer of “increased access to the huge European energy market” very funny, for at least two reasons:
    1) US wants to sell hydrocarbons (LPG) to the European market at significantly higher prices than the Russian prices, and
    2) the current dependence of EU countries on the Russian energy would have never happened if there were better alternatives.

    In other words, any detente offer that the West would make to Russia would last, as usual, not even until the signature ink dries on the new cooperation agreements. Putin does not look to me like someone who suffers much from wishful thinking.

    The Russian relationship with China is not a bed of roses, but it is not China which is increasing military activity all around Russia, it is the West. Also, so far China has shown no interest in regime-changing Russia and dividing it into pieces. Would you rather believe in the reform capability of an addict in violence or someone who does not need to reform? Would the West self-reform and sincerely renounce violence just by signing a new agreement with Russia?

    The new faux detente will never happen, as long as Putin is alive.

  40. Trump is an ultra-zionist for Sheldon Adelson and prolongs & creates wars for the Goldman banking crimesyndicat.

    The only one stopping Trump is Putin or Russia’s missile defenses.

    Indeed, Putin’s main inside ennemy is Russia’s central bank, or the Jewish oligarchs in Russia (Atlanticists). Also Russia needs to foster and encourage small&medium enterprises, that need cheap credit, to create competitive markets, where no prices are fixed and market shares change. These are most efficient resource users.

    In the US, Wallstreet controlls government = fascism = the IG Farben- Auschwitz concentration camps to maximize profits. This is the direction for the US economy.

    Meanwhile in the EU, the former Auschwitz owners IG Farben (Bayer(Monsanto), Hoechst, BASF) the EU chemical giants, who have patented all natures molecules, are in controll again over EU. Deutsche bank et allies is eating Greece, Italy, Spain’s working classes, using AUSTERITY as their creed.

    So what is new? Nothing, the supercorporate-fascist elites are the same families, who ‘s morality is unchanged in a 100 years.

  41. @Quartermaster

    Do you have any economic degree or are you a shouter?

    • Replies: @NoseytheDuke
  42. Anon • Disclaimer says:
    @Priss Factor


    No. Voltaire neither said that nor wrote that.


    Someone paraphrased him and attributed the paraphrase to Voltaire.

  43. @Max Havelaar

    Quartermaster is a hack comedian with only one tool in his toolkit, that of reversal. That everything he says is true only when one understands he means the opposite of what he says does it make sense but alas, not in a way that makes for good humour. Comedic tragedy indeed!

  44. @Seamus Padraig

    I would really love to like Putin and I am trying but him protecting all those criminals and not reversing the history greatest heist of 90’s makes it impossible. While I am behind all his moves to restore Russian military and foreign policy, I am still waiting for more on home front. Note, not only the Bank must be nationalized. Everything, all industries, factories and other assets privatized by now must be returned to rightful owner. Public which over 70 years through great sacrifice built all of it.

  45. @Andrei Martyanov

    Smoothie, you seem to have natural aversion towards lawyers 🙂
    Albeit, the first Vladimir, I mean Lenin also was a lawyers by education still he was a rather quick study. Remember that military communism and Lenin after one year after Bolsheviks took power telling that state capitalism would be great step forward for Russia whcih obviously was backward and ruined by wars at the time and he proceeded with New Economic Policy and Lenin despite not being industry captain realized pretty well what constituted state power hence GOELRO plans and electrification of all Russia plans and so forth which was later turned by Stalin and his team into reality.
    Now, Lenin was ideologically motivated and so is Putin. But he clearly has been trying to achieve different results by keeping same people around him and doing same things. Hopefully it is changing now, but it is so much wasted time when old Vladimir was always repeating that time is of essence and delay is like death knell. Putin imho is away too relax and even vain in some way, hence those shirtless pictures and those on the bike. And the way he walks a la “Я Московский озорной гуляка”. As you said it looks like he is protecting those criminals who must be prosecuted and yes, many executed for what they caused.
    I suspect in cases when it comes to economical development he is not picking right people for those jobs and it is his major responsibility to assign right people and delegate power properly, not to be forgotten to reverse what constitutes the history greatest heist and crime so called “privatization”. Basically returning to more communal society minus Politburo.
    There is a huge elephant in the room too. Russia demographic situation which I doubt can be addressed under current liberal order. all states which are in liberal state of affairs fail to basically procreate hence these waves of immigrants brought into all Western Nations. Russia cannot do it. It would be suicide which is what all Western countries are doing right now.

  46. annamaria says:

    Let’s hope that Europe comes to her senses at some point: “Sweden’s Migrant Rape Epidemic”

  47. Boris N says:


    Russians have such a sarcastic saying: “The Tsar is good, it is the boyars who are bad.” Or more closely to today: “Comrade Stalin did not know, that enemies had infiltrated into the Kremlin” (mocking the idea that Stalin had nothing to do with failures and atrocities of his regime).

    Or if somebody does not understand, if for the last 17 years the Kremlin has been full of “Atlanticists” and bearing in mind Putin is thought omnipotent, probably there were never any pressure and Putin is actually the leader of “Atlanticists”. Never such a simple thought come to your mind?

  48. Boris N says:


    You write about Russia but have not done your homework. Russia is very dependent on Western technology and its entire high-tech industry depends on the import of Western machinery. Without such machinery many Russian factories, including military ones, would stall. Very important oil industry is particularly vulnerable.

    Some home reading (sorry, they are in Russian, but one ought to know the language if one writes about the country).

  49. Boris N says:
    @Andrei Martyanov


    Funny. Who, do you think, is going to do this? There is no one above Putin. But he is the one who must be purged in the first place.

    • Replies: @Sergey Krieger
    , @annamaria
  50. Boris N says:
    @Seamus Padraig


    And the “neoliberals” were appointed by Putin, weren’t they? Or was that done by somebody else?

  51. @Boris N

    I wonder whom you are proposing stead of Putin? I am not his fan, but I see no other person at the moment capable of replacing him.

    • Replies: @Boris N
  52. annamaria says:
    @Boris N

    You mean, purged by another wave of “Harvard (imbecile) Boys?” Or you prefer that Russians “elected” (with the help of the State dept.) another Groysman?
    One wonders, what gives you such a strong confidence in he “must be purged in the first place.” – Is it Russian economy (revived from the ashes after the Boys’ plunder) or Russian state debt (the lowest in Europe), or army, pensions, or the turn to peaceful resolution to Syrian conflict, or the Minsk II protocol? Judging from Putin’s national rating, the Russian citizenry prefers him. Compare Putin to Bush the lesser (a deserter), Blair the Pious (war profiteer), Clinton (the Saudis’ princess), Bibi (the extortionist) , Sarkozy (remember Libya), Hollande (2% national rating – why?) … Is Putin really so bad next to this bunch?

    • Replies: @Boris N
  53. Boris N says:
    @Sergey Krieger

    “Если не Путин, то кот”. Your question has been asked millions of times since 2008 and few understand how ridiculous the very question is. There must be at least 20 millions of Russian men and women between 35 (the constitutional age qualification) to 70 (we do not want a senile president) with a higher education (we do not need an uneducated idiot). Do you really think that in such a large pool there is NOBODY? That an old man with mediocre talents, no proper education (except KGB school), and few real knowledge (except how to spy, plot and manipulate) like Putin is better than anybody among 20 million? I’m not here to offer particular names. My choice hardly matters. In a normal situation with a normal democratic process and competition somebody right might have turned out. But having no name does not mean there are no alternatives to such a mediocrity. There are 20 million alternatives!

  54. Boris N says:

    So you really believe there is somebody in Russia who are not “Harvard Boys”? Do you think today is still 1985? Because only then there were Soviet economists who adhered an alternative economical theory. After 1991 there is no alternative, all Russian economists are liberal. And nothing has changed in 2000. No new theory or new economists appeared.

    Why are you sure that every success is due to Putin alone or even to his (allegedly patriotic, but in fact always liberal) team? Just for example, have thousands of modern superstores in every city been built by him? Or by industrious Russians on the low end? Or haven’t there been high oil and gas prices which brought money and boosted economy? Or was it also Putin? And how long the post-Soviet crisis had had to last, wasn’t 10 years quite enough and economy would have improved in any case, Putin or not Putin?

    And don’t bring in Syria and disgraceful Minsks, as well as phoney ratings. After his lies and fails during the Spring of 2014 he is forever a looser and a traitor of the Russian people.

  55. Anonymous [AKA "spiderman"] says:

    It makes sense, PCR, until you realize that Putin himself is one of the Oligarchs … the proof? his son in law “Kirill Shumalov”, the “Jared Kushner” of the Kremlin!

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